Shoufeng Hualien Bridge Monitoring Station Live Cam

Watching the River: The Station’s Purpose and Presence

Perched where the road crosses the wide braid of the Hualien River in Shoufeng Township, the Shoufeng—often referred to locally as the Hualien Bridge—monitoring station is less a single building than a node in a dense web of data and cameras. Its primary role is straightforward and urgent: to measure water level, streamflow and to give a live visual feed during typhoons, heavy rains and seismic events. Engineers, emergency managers and local farmers consult these feeds to judge when to close roads, evacuate low-lying settlements and pre-position response teams. The cameras and level gauges are designed for continuous telemetry—remote, automated reporting into regional hydrological centers so that the river can be read like a very large, very slow-moving instrument.